Creative Inspiration
We all need some creative inspiration sometimes. Weather we are graphic designers, writers, dancers, animators or need a spark to help us with branding, advertising or marketing there is a desire to be galvanized. As a fan of creatives, I have found a number of sites to help inspire me. Recently I have found a site that helps creative professionals showcase their work and share it with the world.
I visit this site (among a list of others) from time to time gain insight to what others are doing and creatively inspire the projects I am working on. The Behance team behind the Network is a designed based technology company based out of NY.
Here are a couple of galleries I appreciated:
100 Logos In 100 Days
Fer-y-Nora
COLORLESS
Grafitti Book
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Ryan Shude
Public Poster Project
Rest In Peace Mr. Jobs. You have changed the world and left a legacy.
This is still one of my favorite speeches of all time. You can only connect the dots looking back.
AdWeek’s Most Epic Ad
AdWeek’s 25 most Epic Ads. #1 is a Pantene ad called “Crysalis”.
Brand consultant, strategist, and respect author Simon Mainwaring’s new book WE FIRST talks about out how brands and consumers use social media to build communities, profits and positive impact.
In The Paradox of Choice, Barry Schwartz explains at what point choice–the hallmark of individual freedom and self-determination that we so cherish–becomes detrimental to our psychological and emotional well-being. In accessible, engaging, and anecdotal prose, Schwartz shows how the dramatic explosion in choice–from the mundane to the profound challenges of balancing career, family, and individual needs–has paradoxically become a problem instead of a solution. Schwartz also shows how our obsession with choice encourages us to seek that which makes us feel worse.
Authentic Creativity
How does one find authentic creativity? In his last talk before passing away, Malcolm McLaren tells remarkable stories from his own life, from failing school to managing the Sex Pistols. He argues that we’re living in a karaoke culture, with false promises of instant success, and that messiness and failure are the key to true learning.
Malcolm was a designer, promoter and recording artist, masterminded the punk-rock group the Sex Pistols, was an early mover in globalizing hip-hop, and made ambitious works of art.
and I still love Hobo Scratch:
We’re on a world tour…..
Fast Company highlights the top 100 most creative people in their latest issue. Here are just some of our favorites (in no particular order):
#41 John Jay
#53 Chief Almir of the Surui
#43 Naoto Fukasawa
http://www.designboom.com/eng/interview/fukasawa.html
#8 Conan O’Brien
His new documentary:
#29 Tony Hsieh
One from our previous posts:
Fashion, Designs and Style
Marina Toybina has brilliantly designed, styled and created for some of today’s top artists. She known her own incredible custom label designs which all one of a kind and works of art.
We are inspired by her:
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www.marinatoybina.com
Models For Strategic Thinking
Most of us face the same questions every day: What do I want? And how can I get it? How can I live more happily and work more efficiently? Mikael Krogerus and Roman Tschäppeler’s The Decision Book distills into a single volume the fifty best decision-making models used on MBA courses and elsewhere that will help you tackle these important questions – from the well known (the Eisenhower matrix for time management) to the less familiar but equally useful (the Swiss Cheese model). It will even show you how to remember everything you’ll have learned by the end of it.
One of our own
February 10, 2011 | Wilshire Ebell Theater, Los Angeles, CA
The Beat Freaks performed at Word Revolution: A Celebration of the Evolution of Hip Hop, presented by The Grammy Foundation.
